Bang Bang Cafe and Coastal Kitchen Reopen With Dramatic Changes

Capitol Hill basic Coastal Kitchen didn’t change a lot when brothers Dan and Jonathan Tweten bought it in 2016, however after a driver crashed a car by the restaurant’s entrance in Could 2022, the homeowners took the chance to revamp the inside and rethink the menu. The 29-year-old fish home and oyster bar reopens with its engaging new look right this moment, boasting a brand new signal and black exterior, darkish cubicles inside offsetting vibrant white partitions and white-tiled flooring, bar tops of darkish wooden and light-weight marble, and a vibrant mural by artist Becca Fuhrman.

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Within the kitchen, cooks Felipe Prieto (an alum of Mamnoon, amongst different locations) and Tanner Smith are doubling down on Northwest and Pacific Coast seafood like oysters, halibut ceviche, wild Alaskan salmon with black trumpet mushrooms and salmon roe, and shellfish risotto. Small-batch pure wines, native draft beer, and cocktails dominate the drink menu, together with a spiced persimmon scorching toddy and the Tahoma, which shakes up gin with yuzu liqueur, and egg white.

Coastal Kitchen serves dinner day by day; choices past fish embody a wagyu burger with caramelized onions, butternut squash cassoulet, and a beet salad with house-made ricotta, whereas Saturday and Sunday brunch provides a few of the small plates from dinner alongside entrees like pumpkin-spiced pancakes, biscuits with mushroom gravy, and a croque-madame on Saturdays and Sundays. You’ll be able to stroll in or make reservations online and catch comfortable hour from 4 to six p.m. day by day.

Rising from a fair longer hiatus sparked by the pandemic, Bang Bang Cafe, Belltown’s important provider of the Hatch chile-driven cuisine of New Mexico, reopened in late November. Sisters Miki and Yuki Sodos, who personal Bang Bang together with its Othello sibling, Bang Bang Kitchen, additionally used the time to renovate and revamp, including a brand new bar, HVAC, chef, and menu objects like baked items made in-house.

Since they closed their beloved Capitol Hill enterprise, Cafe Pettirosso, early this yr, the Sodos sisters have introduced chef Derek Castro from Pettirosso to Bang Bang Cafe, the place he oversees an expanded menu. Prior winners like meaty or vegan burritos smothered in “Xmas” (crimson and inexperienced chile sauces) now coexist with additional New Mexican dishes like posole, tortas, queso, and house-baked treats together with biscochito shortbread cookies, conchas, and inexperienced chile cheddar scones.

Proper now, the cafe is open Tuesday by Saturday 10 a.m. to three p.m., however plans to increase its hours quickly, which is smart given that you could get wine, beer, and cocktails right here along with Lighthouse Roasters espresso drinks.